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to General Robert E. Lee was in the minds of two men at about the same time. In the spring of 1915, Dr. Samuel Myrtle Johnson gave a talk to the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Raleigh, N.C. He mentioned there was Lincoln Highway, a Jefferson Highway, but no highway dedicated to Robert E. Lee.
A few years later, in an executive committee meeting at a Good Roads Association conference in Murphy’s Hotel in Richmond, Va., Professor D. C. Humphreys, of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., mused about a memorial highway for Lee. He felt it should run from Philadelphia, Pa., the birthplace of the United States, to Lexington, Va., Lee’s resting place. Another in the room suggested the road run from Philadelphia to Arlington, Va., and Lee’s mansion, his home for 30 years.
By the spring of 1918, a route had been settled on - from the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia.
There was a measure of symbolism in this selection. Gettysburg was the high-water mark of Lee’s advance into Union territory, and the
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